Windows 2008 in UCS B200 Blade NIC VLAN problem

Hello Experts,
I've installed Windows 2008 Enterprise on Bare-metal UCS B-200 M2 server with VIC M81KR Mezannine card. UCS Manager version is 1.3(c).
The Problem that I have is that I cannot define VLANs on the NIC adapter inside Windows. is this a problem with the NIC driver ?
( Other NIC cards in other machine for example, have Advnaced Tab in the network configuration where we can define VLANs ).
( in this situation, Windows is un-aware of the VLANs so all the traffic going out will be untagged and FI sending it to the native VLAN on the network).
Attached is a screenshot of the NIC properties in Windows. Your help is highly appreciated on this.
Regards,
Mohammad

Thank you for your answer Padma.
I have simple requirement for this to work. I have two blades windows installed on them and NICs having IPs from the range of VLAN 100 ( IP range : 192.168.100.x). Now I need to reach these two windows machines from other subnets ( subnet VLAN 2 for example / range 192.168.2.x ).
In this scenario, I cannot reach these two windows machines until I define VLAN 100 as native ( default ) in vNIC configuration in the service profile of the balde. ( I understand that windows is sending the traffic un-tagged and because VLAN 100 is the native VLAN in UCS manager, it will forward this un-tagged traffic to VLAN 100 where it is routed to VLAN 2 in our case ).
Do you have any other suggestions for other configuration for these windows machine to be reached from different VLANs in our network ?
Thanks,
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